Articles Tagged ‘Changsha’
Saturday, December 31st, 2016
Happy New Year.
May the year ahead offer health, happiness, prosperity, purpose and fulfillment.
All the best, Wayne, Emily, Adryan and Wyatt
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Saturday, March 14th, 2015
Sat 28 Feb 19:00 until
InterNations event for February 2015
Sun 01 Mar 01:00
Lido Pub
Blok 5A No.9, Darmo Parki, Jalan Mayjen Sungkono
Surabaya
We had 50+ Attendees
Had fun at the event and took some great photos?
Share your memories with everyone on InterNations!
“Welcome to the Official InterNations February Event!
As this is our 2nd meeting in 2015, please come prepared with your ideas and suggestions for the year ahead.
We have ideas for rafting, paintball, Bromo and perhaps some longer tours. Let’s put a plan together.
Looking forward to meeting you all for for fun, drinks and dinner.”
Women of Internations
Next event at Pipe and Barrel
March Event … new location, new attitude
Join us for an attitude adjustment. Come out and have some fun
Saturday March 28th at Pipe And Barrel
7:00 pm start
Jl.Polisi Istimewa 22 SBY 031.5683275
Pipe and Barrel
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Friday, November 7th, 2014
An essential element of many classrooms,boardrooms,town halls and sales offices; whether for teaching children or training employees, explaining a policy making a sales pitch. This is the briefest sampling of boards from classrooms.
Some of these boards are for young learners, ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Bright sunlight and a bad breakfast were two elements of one of the most important days of my life.
A day with equal parts fear, anticipation and confused pride was about to begin.
Emily was already at Hospital Number Three in Changsha. ...
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
Bags are almost packed and we're almost ready to go
Friday the twenty seventh of January will be my last day here
Soon we'll be back in sunny Surabaya
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006
There have been a few changes at work in the last few months.
We've managed to weather the storm.
We'll be moving on at the end of this month.
We'll be in Indonesia, but haven't chosen which city to stay in. ...
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
Halloween is that unique non-holiday that most North American kids look forward to ... and I'm no exception
When I was younger, so much ...
We had begun making plans for the school's Halloween party in September
It was a matter of finding ...
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Saturday, October 1st, 2005
Pandas and pedicabs
Pandas and pedicabs
We visited Chengdu last week
A holiday before the holiday
I took a few days so I could spend time with my wife and son and visit a friend
Steve, who taught with me in Jinzhou and Changsha, is ...
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Thursday, May 26th, 2005
A typical day off spent with family,and a night spent walking with my wife
The day was bright
We had a good day
I was off
I went shopping
With Robert's technical help and Grace's linguistic finesse we managed to buy a Panasonic digital ...
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Thursday, May 26th, 2005
We went shopping today
Robert had a great need to see the traditional market and I had a great need to test-drive the new camera
Wyatt had other needs ...
Emily coaxed me into joining her at the market
I had prepared to veg ...
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